xtraCHEF

• US restaurants and groups tracking food cost

  The vendor says it is built for US operators who need to track ingredient costs, monitor margins and cut manual data entry.

• Toast POS customers

  It pulls Toast sales data for actual versus theoretical costing and complements Toast POS and Payroll.

• Finance and culinary teams working from one dataset

  Invoice data syncs to accounting while recipe costs and inventory serve the kitchen.

Less suited to: Restaurants outside the United States. The product page is served only in the US edition and says the content is not available in the United Kingdom.

• Invoice automation

  Digitises supplier invoices into line-item data and syncs auto-coded entries to accounting.

• Recipe costing

  Plate cost and gross margin by recipe, updating as ingredient prices change and factoring how items are sold.

• Inventory management

  Real-time inventory value with automated price changes and COGS reports from beginning and ending inventory.

• Actual versus theoretical usage

  Uses Toast POS sales data to report actual versus theoretical usage and depleting inventory.

• Mobile inventory counts

  Counts on a phone or mobile device, with or without wifi, mapped to the kitchen layout and assignable to staff.

• Waste and shrinkage tracking

  Tracks patterns of missing value to spot waste, shrinkage and theft.

• Ordering and order guides

  Builds order guides from stock on hand and par levels, schedules recurring orders and sends orders to suppliers.

• Vendor management and product catalogue

  Keeps vendors, orders and the product catalogue in one place.

• Cost reporting

  Drill-down reports on how fluctuating costs affect financial performance across locations, categories and suppliers.

• Accounting sync

  Invoices and sales sync to QuickBooks; other accounting systems get data exchanges.

Pricing model

Quote only

Toast lists two tiers on its pricing page without prices: xtraCHEF Essentials (invoice automation, accounting sync, food cost analytics) and xtraCHEF Pro (Essentials plus recipe costing and inventory management). The product page offers a demo and a 'See Pricing' link.

Compared with the 19 products in Inventory Management that have a profile on this site. These figures describe the category. They are not a recommendation.

• Names 8 integrations. The median in this category is 15.
• Lists Web only. Among the 19 products in this category that state their platforms, 5 list an iOS app and 5 list an Android app.
• The category's 10 most-named integration partners are Lightspeed, QuickBooks, Toast, Clover, Square, Oracle Micros, Revel, Aloha, Xero, Sysco. Of these, this product's listing names QuickBooks, Toast.

Accounting

QuickBooksBill.comNetSuiteMicrosoft Dynamics

Inventory

CompeatCrunch TimeCTUIT

Point of sale

Toast POS

Toast's help article says only Toast and QuickBooks are true integrations; the other accounting platforms connect through CSV data exchanges that need manual action.

Available in

United States

Platforms

Web

Apps

xtraCHEF mobile app: Inventory counts on a phone or mobile device (operating systems not stated)

The vendor says it is built for US restaurants and the page is not available in the UK edition.

Company

Toast, Inc.

Registration

NYSE: TOST

Headquarters

Boston, United States

Founders

Andy Schwartz, Bhavik Patel

Customers named by the vendor

Underbelly Hospitality Group, Okay, Cool Group

Support

Toast runs a help centre with xtraCHEF articles on onboarding, invoices, recipes and integrations, and an xtraCHEF customer care team reachable by email.

Vendor

Toast

Built for

Restaurants

Focus

Food-specific

Status

Acquired

Website

pos.toasttab.com

Also listed in

Purchasing & ProcurementRecipe Costing & Menu Engineering

• COGS-Well

  COGS-Well is cloud software for restaurant inventory, recipe and food-cost control.

  Names 26 integrations, against 8 for xtraCHEF.

• Craftable

  Craftable is a cloud back-office platform for restaurants and hotels that connects vendor ordering, inventory and recipe costing, invoice processing and accounts payable, and daily cost dashboards.

  Names 21 integrations, against 8 for xtraCHEF.

• Supy

  Supy is cloud software for restaurant procurement, inventory and reporting across many branches.

  Runs on Web, iOS and Android, against Web for xtraCHEF.

• MarketMan

  MarketMan is cloud software for restaurant back-of-house control.

  Runs on Web, iOS and Android, against Web for xtraCHEF.

Side-by-side tables built from the same profile data.

• xtraCHEF vs MarketMan
• xtraCHEF vs StockTake Online
• xtraCHEF vs COGS-Well
• xtraCHEF vs Craftable
• xtraCHEF vs Orca Inventory
• xtraCHEF vs Supy
• xtraCHEF vs COGS-Well vs Craftable
• xtraCHEF vs COGS-Well vs Craftable vs Supy

These points were not confirmed when this page was written.

• Prices for Essentials and Pro
• Contract terms
• The pos.toasttab.com/xtrachef page (the live page is /products/xtrachef)
• Founding year of xtraCHEF and current employee count
• Security certifications and interface languages

Facts on this page come from the pages below, checked on 29 September 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you buy.

1. Product pagehttps://pos.toasttab.com/products/xtrachef
2. Inventory featureshttps://pos.toasttab.com/products/inventory-management
3. Pricing page and tiershttps://pos.toasttab.com/pricing
4. Integrations and data exchangeshttps://support.toasttab.com/en/article/xtraCHEF-Integrations
5. Help centre indexhttps://support.toasttab.com/en/article/xtraCHEF-by-Toast
6. 2021 acquisitionhttps://pos.toasttab.com/news/toast-acquires-xtrachef-to-empower-restaurants-with-insights-into-menu-profitability-and-accounts-payable-automation